Name: | LEONIDAS launched as ROB ROY |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 26/10/1912 |
Launched: | 30/10/1913 |
Completed: | 08/08/1914 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 832 |
Dimensions: | 965disp - 1003disp, 260.0 x 27.0 x 9.5(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Geared, 24500shp |
Engines by: | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 29.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
08/08/1914 | British Royal Navy |
09/05/1920 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Laforey Class of destroyers |
Order was subcontracted from Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd | |
30/10/1913: Launched as ROB ROY | |
09/05/1920: Sold for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd at Hayle | |
10/1922: Broken up | |
NOTE: Some sources have this vessel as built by Hawthorn Leslie |
Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
The Times, Friday, 31/10/1913